Notes


Types of Poems

Narrative Poetry - Poetry that tells a story, has a plot, setting, characters and a theme and is written in verse.

Ballad - a poem that tells a story often of a single historical or legendary person. Ballads are usually made up of 4 line stanzas and the stanzas normally have the same rhythm and ryhme scheme.

Dramatic Poetry - Poetry in which the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet, sometimes consists of dialogue.

Dramatic Monologue -

Dramatic Monologue - a speech in which a fictional character expresses his or her thoughts and feelings within a developing situation.

Lyric poetry -Lyric poetry - writers express their thoughts and feeling about a subject in brief but musical way.

Sonnet - A lyric poem of 14 lines with a set rhyme scheme

Figurative Language

Simile - compares one thing to another using like or as.

Metaphor - Compares one thing to another without using like or as.

Personification - Giving human qualities to non-human objects or ideas.

Poetry Terms

Repetition - the use again and again of a word or a phrase

Rhythm - pattern, or arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables

Mood - A feeling the poem creates

Tone - the attitude that a poet takes toward his or her subject or reader.

Imagery - a poets use of words to create mental pictures, or images, that communicate an experience, appels to the 5 senses.

Musical Devices - Refers to the various ways that poets use the sound of words to enrich their poetry. Also, known as sound devices.

Onomontopeia -

Alliteration -

Assonace -

Consance -

Meter -


Stanza - a formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit


Rhyme Scheme - A regular pattern of the rhymming words at the end of each line in a poem Aphorisms - a brief saying that express a basic truth.